Global Exchange

Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization "dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world." Founded in 1988, it focuses on raising public awareness "of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change.

Global Exchange was founded by Kevin Danaher, Medea Benjamin, and Kirsten Irgens-Moller in 1988.

Global Exchange is a member of the Business Ethics Network and profiled in the WiserEarth database at:

Corporations Targeted by Global Exchange
On May 1, 2008, Nic Magel the dierctor of the Freedom from Oil Campaign informed John Stauber that these corporations are currently corporate campaign targets of Global Exchange:
 * Ford
 * GM
 * Toyota

On July 19, 2009, they announced "the launch of its new Chevron Program with an Op Ed (below) in today's San Francisco Chronicle by Program Director, Antonia Juhasz. Ms. Juhasz is the lead author and editor of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report released by Global Exchange and several other organizations in May 2009 at Chevron's annual shareholder meeting in San Ramon, California."

Funding
They have received funding from:


 * Ford Foundation 1989 1987
 * Winston Foundation
 * Boehm Foundation
 * CarEth Foundation

Directors (2008)
Accessed September 2008:


 * Walter Turner, President
 * Wanda Whitaker, Vice President
 * John Harrington, Treasurer
 * Kevin Danaher, Secretary
 * Bama Athreya - Program Director, International Labor Rights Fund
 * Medea Benjamin - Global Exchange Founding Director
 * Randy Durband
 * Delvis Fernandez - Cuban American Education Fund
 * Michele Frank
 * Isao Fujimoto
 * Deborah James - Center For Economic and Policy Research
 * Pierre Labossiere
 * Ted Lewis
 * Jason Mark
 * Tony Newman
 * Thuyen Nguyen - Executive Director of Vietnam Labor Watch
 * Kate Raven
 * Walter Riley
 * Rick Tejada-Flores
 * Tran Tuong Nhu
 * Bob Wing

Other SourceWatch resources

 * Lisa Fuentes
 * JumpStart Ford
 * Medea Benjamin - Cofounder
 * Maria Luiza
 * Shannon Biggs

Contact details
Global Exchange 2017 Mission Street, #303 San Francisco, CA, 94110 Phone: 415.255.7296 Fax: 415.255.7498 Web: http://www.globalexchange.org/

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